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Message-ID: <grhpb3vyajjmceuwgna36g6k2esjtw6qrv35ldlwgdmlvjvuo5@2b3q27zxttxa>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:08:26 +0500
From: Nikita Travkin <nikita@...n.ru>
To: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, 
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>, Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>, 
	Bjorn Andersson <quic_bjorande@...cinc.com>, Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, 
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Balakrishna Godavarthi <quic_bgodavar@...cinc.com>, 
	Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: qca: fix device-address endianness

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 07:03:06PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The WCN6855 firmware on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s expects the Bluetooth
> device address in MSB order when setting it using the
> EDL_WRITE_BD_ADDR_OPCODE command.
> 
> Presumably, this is the case for all non-ROME devices which all use the
> EDL_WRITE_BD_ADDR_OPCODE command for this (unlike the ROME devices which
> use a different command and expect the address in LSB order).
> 
> Reverse the little-endian address before setting it to make sure that
> the address can be configured using tools like btmgmt or using the
> 'local-bd-address' devicetree property.
> 
> Note that this can potentially break systems with boot firmware which
> has started relying on the broken behaviour and is incorrectly passing
> the address via devicetree in MSB order.
> 
> Fixes: 5c0a1001c8be ("Bluetooth: hci_qca: Add helper to set device address")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org      # 5.1
> Cc: Balakrishna Godavarthi <quic_bgodavar@...cinc.com>
> Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>

The same issue was present on sc7180 (qcom,wcn3991-bt) and this patch
fixes it.

Tested-by: Nikita Travkin <nikita@...n.ru> # sc7180

Thanks!

> ---
> 
> Hi Qualcomm people,
> 
> Could you please verify with your documentation that all non-ROME
> devices expect the address provided in the EDL_WRITE_BD_ADDR_OPCODE
> command in MSB order?
> 
> I assume this is not something that anyone would change between firmware
> revisions, but if that turns out to be the case, we'd need to reverse
> the address based on firmware revision or similar.
> 
> Johan
> 
> 
>  drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c
> index fdb0fae88d1c..29035daf21bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c
> @@ -826,11 +826,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(qca_uart_setup);
>  
>  int qca_set_bdaddr(struct hci_dev *hdev, const bdaddr_t *bdaddr)
>  {
> +	bdaddr_t bdaddr_swapped;
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
>  	int err;
>  
> -	skb = __hci_cmd_sync_ev(hdev, EDL_WRITE_BD_ADDR_OPCODE, 6, bdaddr,
> -				HCI_EV_VENDOR, HCI_INIT_TIMEOUT);
> +	baswap(&bdaddr_swapped, bdaddr);
> +
> +	skb = __hci_cmd_sync_ev(hdev, EDL_WRITE_BD_ADDR_OPCODE, 6,
> +				&bdaddr_swapped, HCI_EV_VENDOR,
> +				HCI_INIT_TIMEOUT);
>  	if (IS_ERR(skb)) {
>  		err = PTR_ERR(skb);
>  		bt_dev_err(hdev, "QCA Change address cmd failed (%d)", err);
> -- 
> 2.41.0